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THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK

By: [FORD, HENRY JUSTICE (binding design, endpapers and illustrations)]; LANG, ANDREW; EVERARD, H.S.C.; LANG, LEONORA BLANCHE

Price: $475.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, & Co.: 1889

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 2739

Binding: cloth

Condition: very good

8vo (5" x 7 ”). pp. 390 + 16 pp. publisher's catalogue dated August 1889. Second edition. THE FIRST TITLE IN LANG'S COLOUR FAIRY BOOK SERIES.

Unsigned binding design likely by Henry Justice Ford in gold on smooth royal blue cloth. Spine with titles and a vignette of Jack and the three headed giant; black eps., a.e.g. Includes frontis., 7 full page b/w illustrations as well as over 100 textual vignettes, headpieces and tail pieces.

The Blue Fairy Book (1889) contains thirty-seven tales, among them almost all of the classic fairy stories -- including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinde...
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THE OLIVE FAIRY BOOK

By: [FORD, HENRY JUSTICE (binding design, endpapers and illustrations)]; LANG, LEONORA BLANCHE ("NPUBLISHERORA"); EVERARD, H.S.C.; LANG, ANDREW

Price: $625.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, & Co.: 1907

Edition: First

Seller ID: 2772

Binding: cloth

Condition: very good

8vo (5" x 7 ”). pp. 336. Signed binding design by Henry Justice Ford in gold on smooth olive cloth of a fairy in a tree motioning to a fairy riding a bat. Spine with titles and a vignette of fairies against the moon; pale blue illustrated eps., a.e.g. Includes 8 full-page color plates., 20 full page b/w illustrations as well as 22 textual vignettes.

The 19th book in a 25 book series of anthologies compiled for children by Andrew Lang between 1889 and 1910, which put both well known and obscure tales (some of them recently collected and never before printed) into a form that was acces...
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Author:[FORD, HENRY JUSTICE (binding design, endpapers and illustrations)]; LANG, LEONORA BLANCHE (

THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK

THE OLIVE FAIRY BOOK